{"id":57302,"date":"2018-03-21T22:20:41","date_gmt":"2018-03-21T17:20:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=57302"},"modified":"2018-03-21T22:22:02","modified_gmt":"2018-03-21T17:22:02","slug":"10-killed-in-occupied-kashmir-gunfight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=57302","title":{"rendered":"10 killed in occupied Kashmir gunfight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Srinagar, March 21 (TNS):<\/strong> A gunfight has claimed the lives of five soldiers and five suspected militants in occupied Kashmir, police say.<\/p>\n<p>The fighters on Wednesday attacked security troops carrying out a search operation in forests around Kupwara, 95 km (60 miles) north of the main city of Srinagar, said Shamsher Hussain, senior superintendent of police in Kupwara.<\/p>\n<p>Hussain said that the exchange of\u00a0gunfire\u00a0had stopped and the search operation was ongoing.<\/p>\n<p>Tensions are high in the Indian-occupied region, where the Muslim-majority population stages regular protests against the Indian rule and demands autonomy from New Delhi.<\/p>\n<p>New Delhi has deployed some 500,000 soldiers to the disputed region to further boost the security of the borderline and enforce a crackdown on pro-independence demonstrations in its share of Kashmir, where anti-India sentiments are high.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Courtesy: PressTV<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Srinagar, March 21 (TNS): A gunfight has claimed the lives of five soldiers and five suspected militants in occupied Kashmir, police say. The fighters on Wednesday attacked security troops carrying out a search operation in forests around Kupwara, 95 km (60 miles) north of the main city of Srinagar, said Shamsher Hussain, senior superintendent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":51141,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[604],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-srinagar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57302"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57302\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57304,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57302\/revisions\/57304"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/51141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}